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I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.

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I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.

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Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet.

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My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego.

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Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

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By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.

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The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.

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Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.

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In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.

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A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 24th, 1940

Died: January 28th, 1996

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